Five Reasons to Use Tonic POS

It’s no secret that there’s a huge amount of POS software apps available as of 2025. To make matters more confusing, they all offer similar benefits with no cons, including smooth and clean user interface, cheap payment processing, sleek hardware, 24/7 support, and the list goes on.

Our team at PLS works hard to partner with best-in-class solutions, which is why we now offer Tonic POS as a complete point-of-sale solution for end users who operate QSRs, full-service restaurants, hospitality organizations, and bars/nightclubs.

Let’s get down to business, here’s five reasons to use Tonic POS:

Tonic POS has a sleek, streamlined user interface

Tonic POS has a clean, easy-to-train, easy-to-use interface that encompasses all aspects of the application.

This includes easy-to-read icons, hover-overs to receive additional item descriptions, improved app navigation, and simplified ordering that allows customers to order with staff or from their own devices via QR code.

Tonic POS can be paired with a variety of devices operating on Windows or Android OS. This opens up many new and sleek POS hardware options, including POS PCs from ELO, HP Retail, and Microtouch.

Gone are the days of clunky, funky-looking user interface on legacy POS apps. These solutions were often tied to even uglier looking huge POS PC stations and peripherals. The best alternative is to use Tonic POS, which replaces clunky physical software apps with a streamlined cloud-based solution.

Tonic POS offers multiple functions for your business

If you use Tonic POS, you can take advantage of a variety of useless functions in one app.

These include point-of-sale functionality, customer-facing displays (CFD), traditional and mobile card payments, kitchen display systems (KDS), customer loyalty, and self-checkout kiosks.

Tonic POS also includes other useful functions, like inventory management, menu customization, integrated reservations, check splitting, and the list goes on and on!

Another benefit of Tonic POS is that the app is not reliant on your internet connection. Tonic POS is designed to run off one of your POS PCs as a backup in the event that your internet goes down. This keeps your business running while you resolve your network issues.

Integrates with many 3rd party apps

Tonic POS understands that each end user’s needs are as unique as the dishes on its menu. That’s why they go beyond providing a top-notch POS system; they also form strategic partnerships with leading software solutions across key business areas.

From streamlining accounting to automating inventory management, they’ve carefully selected POS integrations that elevate every part of your operations.

The Tonic team is committed to providing more than just technology; they aim to offer a complete, adaptable ecosystem that evolves with an end user’s needs. The selection of optional integrations is designed to bring unique value to different aspects of a business, allowing operators to optimize for efficiency and growth.

Some integrated apps include MailChip, Chowly, Beersaver, WineMotion, Vinix, SteadyServ, ChefTec, and many more.

Use Tonic POS for a variety of different markets

Tonic POS is not just for a standard sit-down restaurant operator. You can use Tonic POS for quick-service restaurants (QSR), bars, night clubs, coffee shops, ice cream shops, music venues, and more.

The cloud-based nature of Tonic POS allows for fast onboarding, streamlined training, and general flexibility that isn’t offered by other POS apps. In addition, your Tonic account can be customized with many unique features depending on your market, including bar tab management, liquor/inventory controls, QR code ordering, and interactive color-coded table layouts.

Tonic POS and PLS can offer extremely competitive payment processing

Yes, I know this is a phrase that any operator hears quite a bit. You may receive several sales calls per day from payment processors offering you the lowest rate and a variety of other offers. The truth is that many of these low rates come with hidden costs, including rate changes, lengthy payment contracts, limited POS hardware compatibility (remember those big, clunky POS stacks we talked about earlier), and shoddy customer service.

PLS can offer very competitive payment processing that will integrate with Tonic POS through Bold Payments. This process is quite simple, all our team needs to generate a quote is a merchant statement from your current payment processor. Our team then generated a lower rate and you save the difference.

Did you know you can use Tonic POS to handle mobile payments? Gone are the days of relying on T*oast and their handheld devices. PLS can provide a variety of unique mobile payment terminals with EMV, NFC, and MSR payment capabilities. Looking for more flexibility? You can pair a mobile payment terminal to a cradle to create a fixed-to-mobile POS solution.

What about legacy QSR/FSR POS apps?

These apps are the elephant in the room, and they rhyme with roast, pair, stover, smaloha, and so on.

All of these apps are great, however you may not receive the consistency and customer service that you would receive when you use Tonic POS.

Tonic POS is a privately-owned software app, which means they only answer to you, the customer, and not to a boardroom in Manhattan.

How can I receive a quote for Tonic POS?

Tonic POS is offered exclusively through authorized partners like PLS. This allows operators to receive competitive monthly pricing, great customer service, and other IT-centric solutions like Office 365 licenses, cybersecurity, and integration services for large-scale rollouts.

Please reach out to our team here to start a conversation on Tonic POS.